The air had barely cooled when the uneasy tension returned.
Adonis sat against the wall, wiping sweat from his brow. Even after rest, a brutal unease gripped him—something was coming.
"You alright?" Ai asked, bow at the ready.
He shook his head, unable to explain.
Before anyone could respond, black chains shot from the shadows, wrapping around every one of them—from Tyrant to Ai, Alex, Mia, Adonis everyone—binding bodies from neck to feet making them unable to move.
"So easy," came a mocking voice from darkness. Wrath stepped forward, flint chains clinking in his hand. Beside him, Gluttony emerged, arms folded, red eyes gleaming in his hood. "I thought students who came to the second floor would be special, but they are so predictable."
Tyrant roared, straining against the bonds. "What are you doing in the Stellar Academy's private dungeon?"
"Don't bother trying, darkness chains not something brats like you can break" Gluttony said.
Wrath also grinned, flicking a chain like a snake's tongue. So we have noisy one, two pretty ones and two beautiful ladies. Should we start with noisy one … or perhaps with" He licked his lips at Mia and Ai "ladies"
Gluttony shot Wrath a cold glare. "Are you here for play? just get rid of them and focus on the mission."
Wrath snorted. "That's no fun atleast let me play with just one."
Tyrant snarled, "Don't you dare you bastard—"
Tyrant shout cut by chains wrapping his mouth.
Mia tried attacking chains, frost flickering at her fingertips. "You're dark-element heretics?"
Wrath laughed. "You're right we are heretics of dark element, we are what you call demons and monsters, tell me pretty lady are you afraid? don't worry although all dark element users are worst than demons compared to them I'm pretty gentle, haha."
Mia and Ai covered in cold sweat—
Despair seem to cover their faces, they all heard being captured by dark element users is worse than death.
But suddenly
Sound of grinding metal rang out echoing in the dungeon.
Then a bone chilling voice rang into their ears.
"TAKE! THAT! BACK!,"
Everyone turned to direction to voice, where they found found Adonis who's head is lowered.
Including Wrath and Gluttony, everyone look confused,
Wrath's grin faltered for a second before saying, "Kid, I didn't—"
"I said TAKE! THAT! BACK!!"
Adonis raised his head, his golden eyes no more shining, instead it is bursting with cold killing intent,
forget his friends even Wrath and Gluttony were feeling intimidated by his cold gaze and bone chilling aura, so much so they unconsciously stepped backwards.
Then suddenly golden light came from his body within chains around his torso, then:
CRACK!
with the snapping sound:
with a burst of blinding light. The black chains shattered like brittle glass.
"I don't care you call yourself, monster, demon, animal, fiend or whatever but you have no right to drag all other darkness users with you" Adonis said in bone chilling voice.
But rather than his words they are more shocked by him breaking their chains.
Gluttony staggered back. "An aristocrat-level brat shattered our royal-grade chains?"
Wrath clenched his whip into a coil. "What the hell is that elemen…"
But before he finished his sentence the entire cavern starting to shake.
A roar like the world's end thundered.
Above them, the volcano's mouth ripped open in a cascade of molten fury.
And from the molten fury descended a towering scales flowing like magma, wings beating storms of ash and flame.
Its roar echoed through every tunnel
Raising temperature of dungeon in instant
And their worst nightmare the LavaDragon has woken up